Middle atmosphere simulated with high vertical and horizontal resolution versions of a GCM: Improvements in the cold pole bias and generation of a QBO-like oscillation in the tropics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3829-3846

  Hamilton, Kevin ^a   Wilson, R John ^a   Hemler, Richard S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0033570665     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3829:MASWHV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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